Kenyan bishop applauds ruling that U.S. Mill Hill priest was murdered

Published: 2007-08-14

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- A Kenyan bishop applauded an inquest court ruling that a U.S. priest who died in Kenya in 2000 did not commit suicide but was murdered by a third party. Bishop Peter Kairo of Nakuru, head of the Kenyan bishops' conference's justice and peace commission, described the ruling as superb. "The fact that the inquest court has managed to rule out the FBI suicide theory on the murder of the late Catholic priest is good enough," the bishop, who attended the court's Aug. 1 ruling, told Catholic News Service. After a nearly four-yearlong inquest into the death of Mill Hill Father John Kaiser, presiding magistrate Maureen Odero said in the ruling that "there exists sufficient evidence to show third-party involvement in the death of the deceased" and recommended that the Kenyan police immediately start fresh investigations to determine who killed Father Kaiser.

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